- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106927), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

 - Fixed the behavior of the `KUBE_PROXY_NFTABLES_SKIP_KERNEL_VERSION_CHECK` environment variable in the nftables proxier. The kernel version check is now skipped only when this variable is explicitly set to a non-empty value. To skip the check, set the `KUBE_PROXY_NFTABLES_SKIP_KERNEL_VERSION_CHECK` environment variable. ([#130401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130401), [@ryota-sakamoto](https://github.com/ryota-sakamoto))...

- Upon successful authorization check, an impersonated user is added to the system:authenticated group.
  system:anonymous when impersonated is added to the system:unauthenticated group. ([#94410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94410), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Kubeadm: Added support during the preflight check "CreateJob" of "kubeadm upgrade" to check if there are no nodes where a Pod can be scheduled. If there are none, show a warning and skip this preflight check. This can happen in single node clusters where the only node was drained. ([#124503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124503), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

- Upon successful authorization check, an impersonated user is added to the system:authenticated group.
  system:anonymous when impersonated is added to the system:unauthenticated group. ([#94409](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94409), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Added authorization check support to the CEL expressions of ValidatingAdmissionPolicy via a `authorizer`

  ([#41449](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41449),
  [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Kubelet: Remove the PLEG health check from /healthz, Kubelet will now report
* NodeNotReady on failed PLEG health check.
  ([#41569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41569),
  [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* CRI: upgrade protobuf to v3. Protobuf v2 and v3 are not compatible.

- Discarded the output streams of destination path check in kubectl cp when copying from local to pod and added a 3 seconds timeout to this check ([#126652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126652), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI]

- Kubeadm: switched the validation check for Linux kernel version to throw warnings instead of errors. ([#131919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131919), [@neoli...

* support cross resource group for azure file ([#68117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68117), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))